AIM Stars: Arts In Motion's Competition and Performance Groups

AIM Stars is a program designed to nurture and enhance students’ passion for the arts. Our focus is on providing comprehensive arts
education through a workshop style classroom environment. This approach is enriched with numerous performance and feedback
opportunities, not only from the program directors but also from industry professionals actively working as artists.

 

AIM Stars offers music and acting classes, along with audition-only intensive classes for those seeking a deeper dive into these
disciplines. The intensive classes will also offer the opportunity for students to explore artistic roles such as choreographer and
director. A detailed description of the classes is below for your reference.

Class Times will be on Monday evenings from September 2024 - April 2025 at the Arts in Motion building located at 13921 7th Street,
Dade City, FL 33525

 

• 5:45-6:30 Acting

• 6:30- 7:15 Music

• 7:15- 7:45 Music Intensive (Audition Only)

• 7:45-8:15 Acting Intensive (Audition Only)

• 8:15-9 Acting

• 9-9:45 Music

 

Acting Classes

In this 45-minute workshop style environment, students will study and perform various scenes for competitions throughout the
year. This class emphasizes collaboration, focusing on the scenes they are studying, Students will breakdown and perform the scenes
to practice interaction and emotional expression. Students can expect to learn fundamental skills essential to acting, including but
not limited to:

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• Voice and Diction: Techniques to project your voice clearly and use proper pronunciation.

• Improvisation: Exercises to enhance creativity and spontaneity.

• Memorization Techniques: Effective ways to memorize lines and cues.

• Movement and Physicality: Using body language and movement to convey character and emotions.

• Stage Presence: Building confidence and commanding attention on stage

• Character Development: Methods to create and embody believable characters.

• Emotional Expression: Harnessing and controlling emotions to portray a wide range of feelings authentically.

• Script Analysis: Understanding and interpreting scripts, including themes, motives and objectives.

 

Music Classes

 

Our music class is a 45-minute class that is centered on collaborative group performance, integrating not just singing, but also
choreography and expression into the overall presentation. While there are opportunities for solos within the group and at
competitions, this class does not focus on individual voice instruction. Instead, it emphasizes the collective performance experience
and includes these fundamentals but is not limited to:

 

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• Musical Interpretation: Understanding and conveying the emotional and thematic content of the musical piece/pieces.

• Stage Presence: Building confidence, engaging with the audience and maintaining performance energy.

• Performance Etiquette

• Vocal Techniques: Proper breath control, vocal projection and pitch accuracy

• Harmony and Ensemble Singing: Blending voices, learn to sing your vocal part even though others around you may be singing a different vocal part.

• Choreography Integration: Combining singing with movement to enhance stage presence.

• Fundamental Music Theory/ Terms: Note values, scales, dynamics, rests, etc.…

• Basic Musicianship: Understanding musical notation. Developing a sense of rhythm and timing and application.

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Intensive Classes

To enroll in our Intensive Music and Acting Classes, students must be concurrently enrolled in one of our fundamental music or
acting classes. These intensive classes are audition only and have limited space, ensuring a focused and high-quality learning
environment. The intensive class is a 30-minute class and will require homework from the students. Students can audition for one
intensive or both. Additionally, students must re-audition each year to earn their spot in the intensive classes. Enrollment is not
guaranteed from year to year, as students are not grandfathered in. This ensures that all participants maintain the highest level of
commitment and skill.

In the intensive classes, students will build upon the skills learned in the fundamental courses, delving deeper into advanced
techniques and skills. The program is designed to challenge and elevate students’ abilities, preparing them for higher levels of
performance and competition.

Here are some advanced skills that may be covered in either the Intensive Music Class, Intensive Acting Class, or both, in addition to
the fundamental skills listed above.

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• Voice and Diction: Accents and dialects, vocal modulation and advanced breathing techniques.

• Harmony Improvisation: The ability to create harmony that is not on the sheet music.

• Movement and Physicality: May include advanced stage combat, dance integration, and physical theatre techniques.

• Character Development: Character analysis, method acting techniques, and developing complex backstories.

• Emotional Expression: Advanced emotional exercises. Integrating personal experiences into performance.

• Script Analysis/Scene Work: Detailed text analysis, subtext exploration and testing different interpretations. Tackling scenes from classical and contemporary plays.

• On Camera Techniques: Understanding the differences between stage and screen acting.

• Self-Directing: Skills for self-evaluation.

• Sight- Reading Exercises

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An additional opportunity to participate in the intensives is through internships. Up to two students will be selected as
choreographer interns for the music class, focusing solely on assisting with the performance, rather than performing. Similarly, up to
two students will be chosen to assist with scene direction in the acting intensives. While the chosen directors may also participate in
the other scenes that they are not directing, the choreographer interns will be dedicated exclusively to their role as choreographer
unless multiple musical pieces are being done.

Fees

 

• Students must be AIM members ($50 annual AIM membership per family). This fee is required at registration and is non-refundable. Additionally, a one-time $25 supply fee per student is required at registration.

• The 45-minute fundamental acting, and music classes are $55 per class per student. If a student participates in both acting and music classes, the total monthly fee is $110. (If you have more than 2 students enrolled in fundamentals classes the maximum monthly fee is $230 per family) First payment will be due before the first class on September 9 th and then will be automatically charged monthly.

• Intensive classes are $30 per student, per intensive. The first payment is due before the first class on September 9 th, , then will be automatically charged monthly.

• Competition Fees vary and are set by the competition company. AIM stars participates in Access Broadway in Orlando, FL and locally at Spotlight on Talent. Dates for these competitions are already posted on the AIM calendar along with due dates for the fees.

 

Important Dates

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• August 26 th

• 6-7:30pm Auditions for new students and intensives

• 7:30pm-9pm Ice Cream Social and Mandatory Parent/Student Meeting for all AIM Stars (new and returning)

• September 9 th First Day of Classes

 

Please see calendar for full year of events.